The Lost Mines of Mexico (1900)
Book Details
Author(s)Verona Granville
ISBN / ASINB01IIW3VWK
ISBN-13978B01IIW3VW0
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
Verona Granville was an author who contributed to the "Out West" magazine in 1900 regarding the Lost Mines of Mexico, which article has been reprinted for the Kindle.
In introducing this article Granville writes:
"VOLUMES might be written about the “ lost mines” of Mexico, which Baron von Humboldt called “ the treasure house of the world.” There is no subject more fascinating ; and when a prospector or miner falls under its dazzling influence he pursues his search, year after year, sacrificing his all in the radiant hope of uncovering untold wealth in buried treasure, or finding shafts and tunnels leading to great bodies of glittering ore.
"Tradition locates most of the lost mines—or minas tapaa'as—in Northern Chihuahua and Sonora, in the Sierra Madre. This area has always, until the past dozen years, been subject to periodical raids from Apaches; and miners were often forced to flee for their lives to the interior, and shafts and tunnels were concealed, and frequently all surface improvements destroyed by the owners themselves, to prevent discovery until they could safely return. That many never returned, and that many mines are still lapada no one acquainted with the history of mining in Mexico can doubt. In many instances the trails leading to old mines may have been totally destroyed during the rainy seasons, when the face of nature is sometimes altered beyond recognition by devastating storms."
In introducing this article Granville writes:
"VOLUMES might be written about the “ lost mines” of Mexico, which Baron von Humboldt called “ the treasure house of the world.” There is no subject more fascinating ; and when a prospector or miner falls under its dazzling influence he pursues his search, year after year, sacrificing his all in the radiant hope of uncovering untold wealth in buried treasure, or finding shafts and tunnels leading to great bodies of glittering ore.
"Tradition locates most of the lost mines—or minas tapaa'as—in Northern Chihuahua and Sonora, in the Sierra Madre. This area has always, until the past dozen years, been subject to periodical raids from Apaches; and miners were often forced to flee for their lives to the interior, and shafts and tunnels were concealed, and frequently all surface improvements destroyed by the owners themselves, to prevent discovery until they could safely return. That many never returned, and that many mines are still lapada no one acquainted with the history of mining in Mexico can doubt. In many instances the trails leading to old mines may have been totally destroyed during the rainy seasons, when the face of nature is sometimes altered beyond recognition by devastating storms."
